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South Eastern and Chatham Railway companies Managing Committee: Records
Catalogue reference: RAIL 633
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RAIL 633
Minutes, etc, of the joint bodies established under the South Eastern and London Chatham and Dover railway companies Act 1899.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RAIL 633
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Title (The name of the record)
- South Eastern and Chatham Railway companies Managing Committee: Records
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1849-1944
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Description (What the record is about)
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Minutes, etc, of the joint bodies established under the South Eastern and London Chatham and Dover railway companies Act 1899.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- SEC
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- South Eastern and Chatham Railway Companies Managing Committee, 1899-1923
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 539 files, flat sheets and volumes
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Railways
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The SEC was formed to manage the undertakings of the South Eastern Railway Company (SER) and the London, Chatham and Dover Railway Company (LCD) as one undertaking. The arrangement being authorised by the South Eastern and London, Chatham and Dover railway companies Act 1899. The committee was formed by four representatives of each company, the Chairman being the Chairman of the SER. The SER and LCD remained as separate holding companies.
The South Eastern and London, Chatham and Dover railway companies Act 1903 authorised the SEC to work its lines by electric power and several other acts were passed to extend the time for the completion of the necessary works.
The SER served Kent (almost monopolising the county) from its London termini of Victoria, Charing Cross, Holborn Viaduct, Cannon Street and London Bridge with lines into other counties reaching as far as Guildford in Surrey and Hastings in Sussex.
By its demise, the SEC controlled 625 miles of line with about another ten miles either owned jointly with or leased from other companies.
The SEC, with its constituent companies, were grouped with other companies such as the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway and the London and South Western Railway, by the virtue of the Railways (Southern Group) Amalgamation Scheme 1922 to form the Southern Railway Company on 1 Jan 1923.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12821/
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